A Sex Scandal involving the White House

[BOSSHOG]

All we have to do is sit back and let conservatives take care of this heady issue. We can understand how their being lied to for four plus years involving the deaths of thousands and thousands of human beings, and the misappropriations of billions and billions of fiduciary expenditures can easily be explained by conservatives. But now a break for us. I'm sure we can rely on God fearing Conservative Americans to take the ball and run with this SEX SCANDAL INVOLVING THE WHITE HOUSE. Those responsible for such an outrage will be held accountable because the blood of conservatives runs red white and blue. Praise the Lord.

[mhr]

1. Scott McClellan Possible Gay Connection To Gannon

"RAW STORY has been told that the White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan visited a gay bar in Austin, Texas, on March 19, 1995. The date was placed exactly as a local memorial service was held on the same day.

The source, who would only comment on condition of anonymity, reserved comment on whether McClellan was actually gay, but said he was frequently seen at gay clubs. Another source also confirmed this account.

“He was often seen in gay clubs in Austin, Texas and was comfortable being there,” the Texan said. “He’s been seen in places that normal people who are looking for heterosexual relationships are not seen alone.”

“He was the mayor’s son in town, everybody knew who he was,” the source added, referring to McClellan’s mother Carole Keeton Strayhorn."

Snip ......

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=73

[Riding this Donkey]

7. Well, Well, Well

When Scottie's blue shirt shows up with semen stains....................................

[chookie]

12. All the more ironic

...because "Jeff Gannon" loved to taunt Bill Clinton about the blue dress in his posts on Free Republic.

It is hypocrisy of breath-taking magnitude to tell "liberal bloggers" to bring it on, and KNOW what you were a ho as recently May 2003.

[Melynn]

37. Why are you surprised that "Jeff Gannon" loved to taunt Clinton

about the blue dress? Heterosexual activity just makes "Jeff Gannon" sick. :puke:

[Vinca]

15. McClellan did seem to have one big, sh*t eating grin on his face

every time he called on "Jeff" in a press conference. Come to think of it, so did Dubya!

[zann725]

58. Scotty's eyes just sparkled. Bringing new meaning to "Beam me up Scotty."

n/t

[LinuxInsurgent]

22. yes yes yes yes yes!

It's all falling apart...and in the best fashion too...not only is this gonna rip the White House...it's gonna make shreds of the moral values arguments....

Republicans...the party of male prostitutes, and self-hating gays!

oh...god...this is SO good.

[FreedomAngel82]

51. Everything seems to be falling apart

for them. Which makes this democrat very happy after all they've done. Ah it's catching up to them. :bounce: I hope anyways. Hehe.

[sellitman]

40. edited by Moi

[ourbluenation]

2. don't hold your breath

They will ignore this because it hurts too much to think.

[Vickers]

3. blue dress vs. blue jeans

Of course, it isn't the sex that makes it bad, it's the lying, right George?

:spank: and :P

[libodem]

23. oh happy day ..oh happy day

'our' blue stained dress at last! Oh please, oh please, oh please let it be true. Pinch me, am I dreaming? No. Don't wake me up. Let it be true. I hate those self-righteous, sanctimonious, blow-hards. No pun intended.

[Adelante]

32. Welcome to DU, libodem!!

:hi:

[coloradodem2005]

45. You and me both.

God, I would only dream to see them get theirs.

[sui generis]

4. but they're not running with the ball

they're making him out to be the victim and all of us wicked wicked democrats are just evil and bigoted against gays for focusing on his background in a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.

Talk about situational ethics taken to the extreme . . .

[BOSSHOG]

8. You've got to be kidding

You mean falwell et al are not calling on the president to come clean? orin hatch is not working on articles of impeachment? But they must be working behind the scenes to clean this mess up, they must, they must. We all know conservatives are the salt of the earth, all we have to do is ask them.

[Bake]

50. Funny, haven't seen Bro. Falwell lately!

I wonder why ...

Bake

[Contrary1]

9. Exactly...

I put on my hip boots and waded over to Freeperland, just to see what their take was.

Here it is:

Liberals are hypocritical in outing him.

It's not true, because the porn website thing was explained to their satisfaction with the BS Gannon shoveled with Brit Hume.

It's not Gannon in all those pics, and John@ Americablog searched for lookalikes.

And my personal favorite:
Speculating that John stayed up all night creating fake websites.

These guys are such tools.

[chookie]

16. What if it had been Helen Thomas or CBS's John Roberts?

What if Helen Thomas had been living a double life and had porn pictures of herself posted on the internet? What if Free Republic uncovered that CBS's John Roberts was available for stud service, in addition to filling in for Dan Rather when he is on assignment?

I think I would be shocked and horrified. I don't think I'd be rushing to their defence about their right to privacy and free speech and saying it was nobody's business. Which is what Guckert supporters are doing. IMHO, once you post pictures of yourself with a hard on and solicit clients online for sex, you kinda aren't a private person.

I don't care what sexual persuasion Guckert was -- the fact that he was a prostitute is shocking. The fact that he posted pornographic pictures of himself on the internet with the goal of advertising to "clients" is sickening.
And it's not like this stuff happened in his "reckless youth" -- the web site Americablog cites was active until May 2003! And now "Gannon" says all of this stuff is irrelevant because he has been saved by Jesus Christ. Apparently, pretty recently....

It doesn't get any more sleazy than this. GOPUSA **HIRED** this guy to be a reporter! And he was a SALARIED reporter on their staff.

And somehow a scuzzy PROSTITUTE got into the WH pressroom time and time and time again! He even managed to direct a question at the POTUS.
It's crazy. Maybe it's just ultra hard core authoritarian hypocrisy, that this guy's brain was so compartmentalized that he never feared that his vocation as a ho for hire would be revealed, after he had set himself up as such a conspicuous presence among the WH press corps. Bizarre. Craziest yet, "Gannon" goaded opponents to "bring it on" -- knowing that all this porn stuff he had done was out there and could be uncovered. Did he think he was protected? Was he praying it would not be revealed, and that he could leave it all behind after he had become a Big Man in "journalism"?

To those who say this is not a big story -- gee, what if it was Helen Thomas or John Roberts? Yeah, it would be a big story. It IS a big story.

It remains to be shown if anyone knew "Jeff"'s two careers simultaneously.

You have to ask, if the WH and GOPUSA and their freeper supporters are so darned innocent, WHERE IS THEIR OUTRAGE?? Why aren't the dogs barking? If I was Bush, or Scotty, and I was truly caught offguard by this, I'd be freaking out and screaming for someone's head to roll for embarassing me with a HO in my midst!! So you have to wonder, why are they soft-pedalling it? Why isn't Wolf Blitzer freaking? i think it's pretty obvious. Their cover as propagandists has been blown BIG TIME -- and now they are scurrying away like cockroaches.

This IS a big story. And it is going to get even bigger. We haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet.

[KoKo]

17. Chookie, please post this separately...belongs on DU Front Page.....

It's excellent. This is exactly why GannonGate is Important! (aside from whatever other revelations are coming). :thumbsup:

[hughee99]

31. Situational Ethics,

We see a lot of that these days... "Why aren't the repukes running McClellan out of office... and such". In most situations, the good people here at the DU would stand up to defend a person who appears to be persecuted for being gay, not complaining that the witch-hunt has been going to easy on someone. It's interesting to see people here who aren't afraid to use situational ethics themselves to point out situational ethics on the other side, or people who just revel in conservatives "eating one of their own".

Do most people still believe that persecuting someone based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation is ALWAYS wrong? Did I miss a memo, because I'm not feeling a whole lot of that sentiment right now.

[AntiCoup2K4]

41. Nothing wrong with Scotty being gay

everything wrong with him giving his boyfriend a press pass under a false name.

[zann725]

60. And hypocritical to be part of an Admin. that bashes Gay Marriages,

...yet clearly condones Gay affairs with sleezy male escorts sporting chains and bondage gear. Given the 'military' theme of these escorts, a whole new perspective is revealed re: Homoxexual themes in Abu Gharib torture.

[hughee99]

70. I agree on this...

but some of the outrage here seems to be that the the fundies aren't running him out because he is/might be gay.

[chalky]

53. In short--

It's not that Guckert/Gannon is a gay ho, it's that he's a ho.

[hughee99]

71. again...

Isn't this a "personal matter" for him? Has anyone at the DU ever called for someone's resignation because they sleep around?

[w4rma]

5. Pfft. They're brainwashed. We'll have to do the heavy lifting. (nt)

[DenverDem]

6. busholini himself is gay as hell.

Just ask Victor Ashe.

Not that there's anything wrong with it.

Except for the hypocrisy and the lies.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Victor Ashe was spotted at the WH last week

LOL. Even Cheney and Wolfie came out to visit.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

62. I read that the first person who died of anthrax was rumored to have

compromising photos of * and Ashe.......

http://tnimc.org/newswire/display/1131/index.php

[dbt]

11. Media is in a cold sweat over this RIGHT NOW.

It's not going to take much more before they just gotta give in to their favorite type of story: SEX SCANDAL. They are jonesing big-time!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[Alpharetta]

13. You are so right

Larry Flynt has gotta be laughing. It's like watching the class valedictorian, always so self righteous, guzzling jello shooters and about to strip at the class party.

When they decide the couch potatoes want details, the "press" is gonna dig up Gannon's dirty undies and sniff them on live TV.

[Vickers]

18. "They (MSM) are jonesing big-time!"

:headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:

[chalky]

55. Too bad the National Enquirer isn't printing it.

Not being facetious. Let's face it, the National Enquirer is MSM's touchstone. They were the ones that rang the starting bell in the O.J. trial feeding frenzy and the Gary Hart scandal.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

63. See post 62, and click link.

[chalky]

67. Yikes! n/m

[union_maid]

14. Oh, the MSM will pick this up

<bitter><sarcasm> The mainstream media will now look at the deeper implications behind the juicy tabloid-type gossip and will investigate thouroughly. They probably won't let up until we, the people, know exactly why, how and under what circumstances this man got the kind of access he did. They're the watchdogs, after all. Woof.</sarcasm></bitter>

[Charon]

19. Sex Scandel

You mean some one has information on the President having sex withsome one in the White House

[Disturbed]

20. The sex scandal part will be the story.

It will be at supermarket counters soon. The real story about Talon and the Fascist operatives will be ignored. The links leading to V. Plame, Dan Rather setup and paid by tax dollars "journalists" will be buried beneath the smut story. The real story could lead to criminal indictements so that will be buried deeply.

[Blue Gardener]

21. Lets all write letters to the editor

But pretend you're a wingnut, and express your absolute OUTRAGE that there is a GAY hooker that has been allowed access to the White House. We simply cannot have that kind of immoral person so close to our great President! Appalling!

[Vinnie From Indy]

69. My Local Editor is thoroughly part of BushCo ! n/t

[John_H]

24. I will send a beer to any DUer who's willing to bet agianst me and wins

My bet: that the MSM does not touch this. As far as they're concerned this story is as dead as a stick.

[caligirl]

25. In light of the difficulty in tracking down important threads to this

story I am reposting the link to the Gillespie law firm by a GOP/USA operative named Powell



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1589943#1589951

Jeff Gannon worked for Talon News. Talon News and GOPUSA both belong to Bobby Eberle. The members of the board of directors are mostly active GOP Operatives from Texas.

Board member, Richard M. Powell is the Managing Director for Quinn Gillespie & Assoc. LLC.

Gillespie is none other than Ed Gillespie who was on a 'leave of absence' running the RNC for the 2004 Election.

But hang on folks, this doesn't involve just the GOP, it involves the DEMS too!

So who is Quinn, in this Quinn, Gillespie? Surprise, surprise he is a fellowed name Jack Quinn, a top DEM DC lobbyist.


Check out the News Page on their Website. This goes all the way to the Bush Campaign and the Kerry Campaign! They are all in bed together.

[John_H]

28. LOL! Nice try. Desperation sucks, doesn't it?

Wait. I think your cousin is calling you back to bed.

[caligirl]

29. WTF are talking about?

[coreystone]

26. "Get Clinton".......

1. Whitewater
2. Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America in 1994
3. $65,000,000 million to "Get Clinton"
4. Republican clones in both houses to "Get Clinton"
5. Too much in between 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4, and, 4 an 5!
6. Still too much!
7. Oh! Trip and Monica
8. Repeat #2 and #4.
9. Wishful Thinking in 2006 (MAYBE)
10A. Voting is verifiable
10B. Dean and Democrats do the "right things"
10C. Democrats win control of both houses

OR

11. SOME OF THE REPUBLICANS GET THEIR HEADS OUT OF THE SAND AND START "WALKING" WHAT THEY'RE TALKING! In essence, some of the Republicans start being concerned about ethics, and stop leading this nation as though they are "football dads"!

12. This is the "real world", and politics stops at the end of the "game"!!!

13. Only God knows!

;-)

[babylonsister]

27. Do I hear a deafening silence? nt

[DemocracyInaction]

30. Ahhh, long before the Gannon story weren't there whispers of

a 'gay' prostitute service, etc. involving the White House?? It barely saw the light of day and media made sure it was snuffed. Is this part of it or just the tip of the ice berg??? I don't think Bush is gay---he's just not interested in sex. Wife is a thing you have to drag around to be elected (that's why it took him exactly 3 months from meeting Laura to marrying her because he was having trouble getting elected in Texas as a 'carpetbagger' from the North). Being worthy of being the Bush family new "don" is what he stives for---money, power and making people suffer. Perverted little creep that he is. Just like Daddy and his preference for little boys that supposedly the Chinese (when he was ambassador there) have pictures of.

[Disturbed]

34. Poppy Bush a pedophile that likes young boys?

If China has photos that sure would explain the cozy relationship with the Bush Juna and those Dicktators.

[librechik]

33. If it's Republicans they will circle the wagons and nothing will get out

If it were Democrats there'd already be people waiting in jail.

They're just colossal hypocrites, get used to it.

[union_maid]

36. The problem is that the Republicans GET the story out

The Republicans are directly involved in the smearing they do. It's all good for us to have thinktanks and such-like, but the real question is, can the Democrats win if they don't get down to the Republican level when it comes to things like this?

[librechik]

42. WH uses surrogates for the real nasty stuf

We should too

[JerseygirlCT]

46. Wait for them to point fingers at the Dems and cry

HOMOPHOBES!

[Vinnie From Indy]

35. The WH & Their Cable News bitches must be freaking out!

I have been flipping around CNN, MSNBC & Faux and I haven't heard a peep about GuckertGate. If they aren't attacking it, you can be sure they are desperately trying figure a way out of this emerging scandal. Who wants to bet this scandal will rise to the level of another terrorist warning? Maybe this one will warn us all that terroists are planning to get jobs in fast food drive thru's so they can spit in everybody's food.

[Supersedeas]

66. Code Periwinkle

[ClarkUSA]

38. Has James Dobson been sent this information yet?

Or the Concerned Women of America?

I think they ought to know, don't you? ;-)

[KoKo]

39. But...doesn't Dobson wear "earplugs" if it isn't Jesus Stuff that fits

his OWN AGENDA? :shrug:

[TheDonkey]

43. There is probably a lot to this Gannon guy

it's very odd and sad how he can be a gay man hiding behind a macho conservative exterior. I wonder how many other rethugs are like him out there.

[Skittles]

44. BUT BOSSHOG

WHAT DO WE TELL THE CHILDREN?????

[despairing optimist]

47. Does anyone need any more proof this WH is worse than Nixon's?

As an old Saturday Night Live sketch lampooning Pat Nixon writing her memoirs went, "There was no such thing as sex in the Nixon White House. Never! Never! Never!"

[Steely_Dan]

48. Sorry to say...

...but this dog won't hunt.

-P

[ElectroPrincess]

64. Gosh, I hate to admit that you're probably right

This AM ole' "Robyn" is made-up prettier than ever and spewing all the juicy bits from such important stories as Michael Jackson calling 100 witnesses including Kobe Bryant and Liz Taylor; and oh, and the horrific tale from the Zoloft defense.

The MSM is bought and paid for by Rove. To add insult to injury FOX is merely the icing on the cake or red meat for the most mean spirited of the rabid right wing rulers.

We (progressive and those for truth) have no voices save for tidbits that the less astute moderators on CSPAN's Washington Journal allow us to call in and say on air.

We have no voice in the main stream media. Our only hope is that Air America radio and the foreign news services get the story out there so strong that the whores of the USA MSM cannot ignore the craze.

[zulchzulu]

49. So what if McClellen is gay?

There is danger in playing the same "gay joke" crap with Gannon as there is with Scotty. There's plenty of other things to pin on these bastards.

[HR_Pufnstuf]

52. after blewinsky...

...and the money the media made from that sex scandal, will they be able to resist covering this one? ;)


3 stories at goog news currently running the words "jeff gannon gay prostitute":

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=jeff+gannon+gay+prostitute&btnG=Search+News

[chalky]

57. I'm having no luck getting into that Conservative Voice link

I was curious to see their spin on it, but no luck.
Anyone been able to view? Care to share some choice paragraphs?

[chookie]

54. The only people NOT surprised by this revelation

I expect the only people who saw something like this coming were the bonafide WH press corps. Anytime "Gannon" spoke, it was not a question, but a real dramatic performance to accompany his exhortations that Bush is always right, and anyone who disagrees with him is deluded. Gannon was openly contemptuous of the other members of the press. I don't think I was the only person to find his behavior disturbing -- listen to the press conferences and you can hear people laughing at him, sighing deeply, and maybe a whispered "Oh gaaawd..." because he was so unprofessional, and out of line in a situation like this. I truly doubt he mixed with "his colleagues" vey much, because they were professionals and he was not -- hence, "Gannon" spends him time with HIS real peers, the right wing wackos at Free Republic and held court with them

"Gannon" was clearly an exception, and clearly was a Bush loyalist that could disrupt press conference in a way freepers would greatly admire; the bonafides knew SOMEONE was protecting him there and I bet there was a lot of talk about him. I think in time one of these bonafides will come forth and speak out about their observations of this guy, their impressions of him.You bet they wondered what he was about and the ambivilency of his daily press access card, which was not meant to be used day to day by someone who lived in the area. The guy was unstable enough to raise eyebrows and suspicions, and I bet many had real security concerns about this little known guy who is always so histrionic when he speaks -- can we trust him not to go postal on us, or even the president.?

These people are pretty god about spotting wacky shit generally and no doubt can see it in their "colleagues". They watched the access and the interactions between Bush and Scotty and "Gannon" had must have a private theories about what was going on.

I am sure they are reading the "Gannon'Gate blogs with great interest and often shock and horror -- especially that "Gannon" still kept up his day job as a domination whore on weekends even while he pursued a "journalist" career among them as a "peer" reporter.

[HR_Pufnstuf]

56. I think it would be valuable to collect all of his questions...

...verbatum from every press conferences when he asked a question.

Is it all obtainable from public transcripts?

Anyone want the research project of a lifetime?

Go make a website containing all the Questions that Jeff Gannon has ever asked, you have HITS GALORE in a few days.

I have no time.


DU power activate.

[lala_rawraw]

59. You know what really frightens me...

Satanorum has this whole diatribe about gay sex leading to man on dog sex... The rule is, whomever hates the loudest is usually hating themselves. So this guy may in fact be a dog man....ewwwwwwwwww:(((((

[B3Nut]

65. Sounds like projection...

"thou doth protest too much."

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. I've long suspected Fred "godhatesfags" Phelps to be a screaming closet case, too. Freud would have had a field day...

Todd in Beerbratistan

[ElectroPrincess]

68. Hey, no joke ...

Don't insult our beloved pups!!!

My sentiments: Dear Lord, Please make me be the person that my dog THINKS I am.

Our pets, especially IMO our K9s, deserve our care and protection against abuse.

It's horrible to think that people would abuse animals as such (bestiality = animal abuse) ... but please don't make it EVEN worse by introducing that RW slime's name into the mix. :mad: :puke:

[LdyGuique]

61. Lame Duck is reputed to have favored guys himself

There are various rumors circulating online that LD has some "history" with guys - I frankly don't know if it's true -- but it would be in keeping with some of this other nonsense and his extreme animosity towards gays (as in guilty conscience and coverup).

Ever read "The Voice of the White House" over on The Truth Seeker> While it gives me a grin, I'm really not sure of his veracity. May just be a wannabe "Deep Throat" of this Administration.

[lala_rawraw]

73. Okay, me stupid...

What is "LD"?

[goodhue]

72. Craig Spence?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3085974